This

is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

The

Rim of the Pacific naval exercise set to begin a week from today is a perfect

metaphor for President Obama’s failed security policies. 

The

unstated reason for this massive, month-long drill, known as RIMPAC, is to

demonstrate shared resolve and improve regional capabilities to resist the

growing threat posed by Communist China.  

Both

purposes are undermined, however, by Team Obama’s decision to allow China to

participate. Former U.S. Pacific commander Admiral “Ace” Lyons warns that China’s

five ships will be able to collect vital intelligence on ours and our allies’ –

including insights into how we plan to fight them should that be necessary. 

Adm.

Lyons recommends that we invite Taiwan to participate in RIMPAC.  Doing so would have two benefits:  First, we’d stop excluding an important

democratic nation explicitly threatened by China, and second, the Chinese would

surely drop out.     

This

is Frank Gaffney.